Software Developer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

We need another Software Developer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Main duties:

• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Who you are:

• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Desirable:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

What you get:

Compensation: $10.00 - $11.50 per hour

• Flexible hours.
• Paid time off.
• Long-term engagement.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Velvetridge.